Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2004 04:56 AM
You quoted Josh as saying:
"Compare the failure of both Borland's Interbase and SAP's SAP-DB as open source projects -- no offense to Firebird DB, which became a dynamic project after they forked it away from Borland. "
I don't see the damning with faint praise here. I see Josh pointing out that Interbase floundered while Borland was attempting to maintain control. I then see him calling it a "dynamic project" which would hardly be damning with faint praise. If Josh had said something less complementary, then yes, I could see that.
The core PostgreSQL developers, like Josh, know the core Firebird developers, from meeting them at places like OSCON in the past, and have a great deal of respect for them, their database, and the effort they've put into it in the past.
I agree that Firebird is a great database, and I think it gets the short end of the stick when people are talking open source databases, as I'd place it way above MySQL in terms of quality and functionality, while MySQL Seems to get a lot of free press everytime they manage to implement some feature Firebird and PostgreSQL have had for years or even decades.
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Re:Firebird Evaluation
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2004 04:56 AM"Compare the failure of both Borland's Interbase and SAP's SAP-DB as open source projects -- no offense to Firebird DB, which became a dynamic project after they forked it away from Borland. "
I don't see the damning with faint praise here. I see Josh pointing out that Interbase floundered while Borland was attempting to maintain control. I then see him calling it a "dynamic project" which would hardly be damning with faint praise. If Josh had said something less complementary, then yes, I could see that.
The core PostgreSQL developers, like Josh, know the core Firebird developers, from meeting them at places like OSCON in the past, and have a great deal of respect for them, their database, and the effort they've put into it in the past.
I agree that Firebird is a great database, and I think it gets the short end of the stick when people are talking open source databases, as I'd place it way above MySQL in terms of quality and functionality, while MySQL Seems to get a lot of free press everytime they manage to implement some feature Firebird and PostgreSQL have had for years or even decades.
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